kupuí

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

  • kupuaí (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi *kupu'y.

Noun

kupuí (plural kupuí-itá)

  1. plant of the species Theobroma subincanum

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuí

References

  • Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024), “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints, →DOI
  • Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “kupuí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 407
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